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Death of a Salesman , by Arthur Miller  cover of first edition (1949)

Death of a Salesman , by Arthur Miller  cover of first edition (1949). Playwright Arthur Miller with his wife, the actress Marilyn Monroe. Perhaps you’ve heard of her. Source : SFGate.com, from the 2005 obituary for Miller.

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Death of a Salesman , by Arthur Miller  cover of first edition (1949)

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  1. Death of a Salesman,by Arthur Miller cover of first edition (1949)

  2. Playwright Arthur Miller with his wife, the actress Marilyn Monroe. Perhaps you’ve heard of her. • Source: SFGate.com, from the 2005 obituary for Miller

  3. “Before us is the Salesman’s house. We are aware of towering, angular shapes behind it, surrounding it on all sides.”– from Miller’s stage directions An original 1949 Broadway set design by Jo Mielziner [Source: Wake Forest Univ. website]

  4. 1998 at Goodman Theater, Chicago: Brian Dennehy as Willy Loman, with Kevin Anderson (Biff) and Ted Koch (Happy) • Source: moviemail.online.co.uk

  5. The same actors brought the show to Broadway in 1999. • Source: Sara Krulwich photo, as seen in nytimes.com

  6. Nontraditional casting at Oberlin College, 1998 (dir. Justin Emeka): Avery Brooks as Willy Loman, Petronia Paley as Linda Loman • Source: moviemail.online.co.uk

  7. Dustin Hoffman as Willy and John Malkovich as Biff in the photo that became the 1985 movie poster. • Source: http://mmimageslarge.moviemail-online.co.uk/11043_Death-of-a-Sa-1.jpg

  8. “As more light appears, we see a solid vault of apartment houses around the small, fragile-seeming home. An air of dream clings to the place, a dream rising out of reality.”– from Miller’s stage directions An even earlier version of the Mielziner set design [Source: Wake Forest Univ. website]

  9. A scene from the original Broadway production, directed by Elia Kazan. From left to right: Cameron Mitchell as Happy, Lee J. Cobb as Willy, Thomas Chalmers as Ben, and Arthur Kennedy as Biff • Source: 2003 Playbill.com article on the death of Kazan

  10. From the 1985 film version, starring Dustin Hoffman as Willy and Charles Durning as Charley • Source: moviemail.online.co.uk

  11. TV version that brought back Cobb as Willy, with George Segal as Biff and James Farentino as Happy (1966) • Source: Broadway Digital Archive

  12. From the 2009 version that ran at Yale Repertory Theater: Charles S. Dutton as Willy Loman • Photo: The New Yorker

  13. Artist Leonard Baskin’s etching of Willy Loman for a limited edition printing in 1984. • Source: http://www.franklinbooks.com/servlet/the-281/Baskin-Artist%27s-Copy,-Death/Detail

  14. Life magazine photo of an Act 2 scene from the original Broadway show, starring Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman. Miller said he wrote the character with Cobb in mind. • Source: http://filmnoirphotos.blogspot.com/2009/02/happy-birthday-lee-j-cobb-1911-1976.html

  15. Mildred Dunnock as Linda in the Requiem that ends the original Broadway production. • Source: Photo by Eugene W. Smith in Life Magazine, Feb. 1949

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